Bible Truth
about Catholicism

Personal Testimony
Pastor Edward Rice

I was saved in 1960 at the age of eight. My mother and
father
were founding members of Fellowship Baptist Church in Gang Mills New
York. My mother was converted form Roman Catholicism, and
became
a Christian. She was converted to the Lord Jesus Christ; She
was
born again.
The articles below are presented in love, that you may see the lies of
Roman Catholicism and be converted as well. Jesus Christ said
"Except ye be converted .... ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven."

The Bible only is the Standard for Truth

“That
ye might
learn in us not to think…above that which is
written, that no
one of you be puffed up for one against another.’’

I
Corinthians 4:6

“Add thou not unto
his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a
liar.”Proverbs
30:6

“All scripture is
given by inspiration of
God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction,
for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be
perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”
II Timothy3:16-17

“Making
the word of God of none
effect through your tradition, which ye have
delivered…”Mark
7:13

The Basis

of Truth

Truth
is based on Scripture, Tradition, and the Pope

“Sacred Tradition
and Sacred Scripture,
then, are bound closely together and communicate one with the
other.”Catechism
of the Catholic Church Para 80

“And [Holy] Traditiontransmits
in its entirety the Word of God which has been entrusted to the
apostles by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit.”Para
81

“As a result the [Roman
Catholic]
Church...does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from
the holy Scriptures alone.Both
Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honored with
equal
sentiments of devotion and reverence.”Para
82

“The Supreme
Pontiff, in virtue of his
office, possesses infallible teaching authority
when, as
supreme pastor and teacher of all the faithful...he proclaims with a
definitive act that a doctrine of faith or morals is to be held as
such.”Para
891

Salvation is by Grace Alone through Faith

“Being
justified freely by His
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”Romans 3:24

“For
by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves:It is the gift of God:Not
of works, lest any man should boast.”Ephesians 2:8, 9

“For if by
one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
shall
reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.”
Rom 5:17

“Not
by works
of righteousness which we have done, but according
to his mercy
he saved us…”Titus 3:5-6

“I
do not
frustrate the grace of God: forif
righteousness come by
the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”Galatians
2:21

Salvation

by Grace

Alone

For
Salvation, Grace
becomes merely a help, and is given through the sacraments of the Church

“Grace is the help God gives
us to respond to our vocation of becoming his adopted sons.It introduces us into the
intimacy of the
Trinitarian life.”Para2021

“The Church
affirms that for believers the sacraments
of the New
Covenant are necessary
for salvation.'Sacramental
grace'is the grace of the Holy
Spirit, given by Christ and proper to each
sacrament.”Para 1129

“One who desires
to obtain reconciliation
with God and with the Church, must confess to a
priest all the
unconfessed grave sins he remembers after having carefully
examined
his conscience.”Para
1493

Faith is the Gift of God and comes by the Word of God

“ Believe
on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy
house.”Acts 16:31

“For unto you it
is given in the
behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but
also to
suffer for his sake.”Philippians
1:29

“So then faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing
by the word of God.”Romans 10:17

Faith is God-given and
sustained

Faith comes
through
the MotherChurch

“It
is the Church that believes first, and so bears, nourishes
and
sustains my faith.”Para
168

“Salvation comes from God
alone; but because
we receive the life of faith through the
Church, she is
our mother:...”Para
169

‘Believing’
is an ecclesial
act. The Church’s faith precedes, engenders,
supports and nourishes
our faith. The Church is the mother of all believers.‘No one can have
God as Father who does not have the
Church as Mother.’”Para
181

Christ’s
Sacrifice was
His alone and once offered

“...Jesus
said, ‘It is finished:...’”John.
19:30

“But
this
man, after
he had
offered one sacrifice for sins for ever,
sat
down on the right hand of God” Hebrews 10:12

“...when
He had by Himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of
the Majesty on high;”Hebrews.
1:3

Christ’s

Sufficient

Finished

Sacrifice

Christ’s
Sacrificecontinues,
and is
also of the Church

“In this divine sacrifice
which is celebrated
in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody
manner on the altar of the cross is contained
and is
offered in an unbloody manner.”Para
1367

“The Eucharist is also the
sacrifice of the
[Roman Catholic] Church.The
Church
which is the Body of Christparticipates
in the
offering of her Head.With
him, she herself is offered whole
and entire.”Para 1368

Biblical Truth

The Light
of God’s
Word

Topic

New Catechism

Catechism
of the Catholic Church (1994)

God is the
Only All
Holy One, and the Only Source of Holiness

“Holy,
Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of
his
glory.”Isaiah.
6:3

“There
is none holy as the Lord:for
there is none beside Thee:neither is there any rock like our God.”1 Samuel. 2:2

“I am the LORD: that is my
name: and my glory
will I not give to another,
neither my praise to graven images.” Isaiah 42:8

God, the Only

All Holy

One

Mary is also
the
All-Holy One, and the Source of Holiness

“By asking Mary to pray
for us, we acknowledge
ourselves to be poor sinners and we address ourselves to the
‘Mother of Mercy,’ the All Holy One.”Para
2677

“From the [Roman Catholic]
Church he learns
the example of holiness and recognizes its model and source
in the
all-holy Virgin Mary....” Para
2030

“The
Fathers of the Eastern tradition
call the Mother of God ‘the All-Holy’ (Panagia), and
celebrate her
as ‘free from any stain of sin, as though fashioned by the
Holy Spirit
and formed as a new creature’”Para 493

In Salvation the Lord Jesus Christ Alone Mediates

“For there is one God, and
one
mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.”I Timothy. 2:5

“Neither
is there salvation in any
other:for there is
none other name [Jesus
Christ] under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.”Acts 4:12

One

Mediator

In Salvation “Mary” Also Mediates

“Taken up to heaven she did not
lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession
continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation.... Therefore
the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the [Roman Catholic] Church under the
titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.”Para 969

God Hates Idolatry

“Thou shalt
not make unto thee
any graven image, or any likeness of anything...Thou shalt
not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.”Exodus. 20:4-5

“And he declared unto you
his covenant, which
he commanded you to perform, even Ten Commandments; and he wrote them
upon two tables of stone.Take
ye
therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude
on the day that the Lord
spake...Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make
you a graven
image, the similitude of any figure....”Deuteronomy
4:13, 15-16

“Little children, keep
yourselves from idols.
Amen”
1 John. 5:21

Idolatry

The Roman Catholic Church Rationalizes Idolatry

“The Christian veneration
of images is not
contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols.Indeed, the honor rendered
to an image passes
to its prototype, and whoever venerates an
image venerates
the person portrayed in it.”Para
2132

“Basing
itself on the mystery of the incarnate Word, the seventh ecumenical
council at Nicaea
(787) justified…the veneration of icons -
of
Christ, but also of the Mother of God, the angels, and all the saints.By becoming incarnate, the Son of God introduced a new
‘economy’
of images.”Para
2131

This Pagan
Practice is
Forbidden in the Bible

I am the LORD thy God…Thou
shalt have no
other gods before me. Exodus 20:2-3

“There shall
not be found among
you any one…that useth divination, or an observer
of times, or a consulter with familiar spirits,
or a wizard, or a necromancer. [one
who calls up the dead].” Deut. 18:10-11

“And the soul that turneth after
such as have familiar spirits [divination; contacting the
dead],
and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I
will even
set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from
among his
people.Sanctify
yourselves therefore, and
be ye holy:for I
am the Lord your God.”Leviticus.
20:6-7

Dead

This Practice is Recommended by Rome

“Communion
with the dead.In full
consciousness of this communion of the whole Mystical Body of Jesus
Christ, the Church in its pilgrim members, from the earliest days of
the Christian religion, has honored with great respect the memory of
the dead...Our prayer for them is capable not
only of
helping “them, but also of making their intercession for us
effective.”Para
958

“The witnesses who have
preceded us into the
kingdom, especially those whom the Church recognizes as saints, share
in the living tradition of prayer...Their intercession is their most
exalted service...We can and should ask them
to intercede
for us and for the whole world.”Para
2683